100% unofficial, 100% cotton Shep Messing vinyl print football t-shirt.
Potted player history
Bronx-born goalkeeper, who played his entire career in the US.
He joined the U.S. national team that played in the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia.
He went on to play with the U.S. team at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The U.S. went 0-2-1 in group play and failed to qualify for the second round. Messing manned the net in the U.S.’s third game of the games, a 7–0 loss to West Germany. The Munich Massacre took place 30 yards from his room.[2] Messing was protected along with 12 other Jewish members of the US Olympic delegation. He said: “It really forged a greater Jewish identity for myself at that moment than I ever had before… That was a turning point in my life as an athlete – and as a Jew. Words really can’t describe it…. two German soldiers there with machine guys, saying come with them…. We have to get the athletes to safety. Then I realized that they were rounding up the Jewish athletes.”
Played one international for the USA national team.
| College career | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1969 | NYU Violets | ||
| 1970–1971 | Harvard Crimson | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1974 | New York Cosmos | 9 | (0) |
| 1975–1976 | Boston Minutemen | 27 | (0) |
| 1976–1977 | New York Cosmos | 30 | (0) |
| 1978 | Oakland Stompers | 25 | (0) |
| 1979 | Rochester Lancers | 29 | (0) |
| 1978–1984 | New York Arrows (indoor) | 163 | (0) |
| 1984 | New York Cosmos (indoor) | 3 | (0) |
| 1984–1985 | Pittsburgh Spirit (indoor) | 3 | (0) |
| 1986–1987 | New York Express (indoor) | 13 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1971–1972 | United States | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1978 | Oakland Stompers | ||
| 1983 | New York Arrows (interim) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
